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Sunday Oct 23, 2011
Sonnet Fifty by William Shakespeare
Sunday Oct 23, 2011
Sunday Oct 23, 2011
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Sonnet L
by William Shakespeare
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind;
My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
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Sonnet 50
Sunday Oct 23, 2011
Sonnet Forty-nine by William Shakespeare
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Sonnet XLIX
by William Shakespeare
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call'd to that audit by advised respects;
Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass
And scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye,
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity,--
Against that time do I ensconce me here
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand against myself uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
Since why to love I can allege no cause.
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Sonnet 49
Saturday Oct 22, 2011
Sonnet Forty-eight by William Shakespeare
Saturday Oct 22, 2011
Saturday Oct 22, 2011
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Sonnet XLVIII
by William Shakespaeare
How careful was I, when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy of comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou, best of dearest and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,
For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.
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Sonnet 48
Wednesday Oct 19, 2011
Sonnet Forty-seven by William Shakespeare
Wednesday Oct 19, 2011
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Sonnet XLVII
by William Shakespeare
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thyself away art resent still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.
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Sonnet 47
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Sonnet Forty-six by William Shakespeare
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
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Sonnet XLVI
by William Shakespeare
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie--
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes--
But the defendant doth that plea deny
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part
As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,
And my heart's right thy inward love of heart.
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Sonnet 46
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
I Love Therefore I Am
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
I Think Therefore I Am
by Dane Allred
Descartes once said,
“Cogito ergo sum”.
I think therefore I am.
But I may only think I am thinking
When I repeat the empty phrases
I have been taught.
I know I am alive,
That I survive
And swim in the maelstrom of this world.
But I am most defined by love.
Those people, things and ideas I love.
Without the connection from you to me
Without the love we share,
There is no existence,
Only survival.
My new motto is
“Amor ergo sum”;
I love therefore I am.
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Walls by Dane Allred
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Walls can keep us in
Or shut us out.
We use walls to separate ourselves from others
When in truth we all share that common source.
The Bright Space where we all were once,
That place where I knew all there was to know about you,
And you knew all there was to know about me.
We knew everyone who has ever lived,
Who will ever live,
As well as we knew ourselves.
But then we realized there was more to us than that.
There was a something we were missing,
Hiding behind our wall of complacence
Knowing all there was to know.
We discovered we could learn more.
We could experience the universe by ourselves
Alone and away from each other
And the comfort we knew in each other’s company.
So we came here to experience this universe in our own way,
To add to the knowledge of all that has ever been
By finding our way through this solitary life.
We feel alone,
But it was meant for our paths to cross.
I am here to find my way,
But in finding that path,
I may also be here to help you find your way.
What a disappointment it is when we forget that past connection,
When we walk past each other every day
Wondering how to make this life better
And the answer is all around us.
We are here, but we are not alone.
When we reach out to each other,
There is that one instant of recognition
That spark of familiarity
That confirms the link with the time we spent together before this life.
Working together toward our future
We are finding all there is to know
In our own life,
Enriching the lives of others
And seeking that knowledge in perfect harmony
With this universe.
Reach out and break down that wall,
And help continue our search for all there is to know.
The answer is all around us.
We are here, but we are not alone.
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Broken Leg
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
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BROKEN LEG
I dream funny things that could never happen. In the dream it seems so real, but when I wake up I realize how strange it all was. Some people put great faith in dreams, seeing them as prophecies of the future. I dreamed I was putting Christmas tree lights in the walnut tree in the front yard. My wife doesn't really like the white lights on it during Christmas, but I thought with just a few more strands, it would be just perfect. In the dream, I am stringing lights from limb to limb, and then I fall out of the tree. Maybe one of these days I will learn to listen to warnings.
So when a warm November night came, it was too much to resist. Armed with just the right lights, I climbed to the lowest limb and began the adventure. I had been much higher in the tree before, as much as thirty or forty feet off the ground, and had never encountered a problem. But just ten feet off the ground, I fell straight down into the flower bed, bending my ankle and putting enough pressure on the bottom of my leg to crack the fibula. I've fallen farther before, and landed harder, but I twisted my ankle a bit on landing, and slipped sideways.
I lay in the flowers for just a second and limped into the house quickly, hoping no one had seen me fall out of the tree. I told my wife I had just fallen and thought I may have broken my leg. But since I was hopping around on it, we both assumed I was all right, just like always.
I had been cast in the musical "Oliver" and we were having our first read-through and cast meeting later that morning. I went to the theatre and listened to the details, but told the director and a couple of the other actors I thought I had a broken leg and needed to go to the hospital. Everyone laughed even me, since I was just hopping around -- how could it be broken?
At the hospital I was in for a long wait, although the staff did give me some ibuprofen for the pain. A major wreck had happened on the freeway south of town, and the nurses and doctors were very busy taking care of people who were much more seriously injured than I was.
As a non-emergency, I sat in the emergency room for about six hours while they took care of the people whose lives were in danger. As they passed my cubicle, they must have thought to themselves, "Oh, yeah. It's that guy who fell out of his walnut tree while putting up Christmas lights. We'll have to do something about him eventually." With all the pandemonium going on and the people who were really hurting, I almost felt like sneaking out so they could focus on the people who needed it.
After a couple of x-rays, the doctors weren't convinced there were any broken bones. But after I told them there was a pain a little higher in the leg than they had been looking at, another x-ray showed a hairline crack in the fibula. I had broken my leg falling sideways after landing, and the twisting had sprained my ankle.
I was expecting a cast, but everyone told me the bone didn't carry any weight, so it would heal fine by itself. I moaned enough that they gave me an ankle brace I wore for a couple of days.
The real worry they had was the ankle. I had to visit an orthopedic specialist, and as I looked at the team photos of past football stars hanging on the wall, I was duly impressed. Unfortunately, the doctor wanted to put a screw or pin in my ankle to hold it in place!! He said he would like to wait for a couple of weeks and check it then, and to keep wearing the ankle brace the hospital had given me. I was starting to be worried. I was almost afraid to ask the doctor about the broken leg, fearing another pin or screw higher up in the leg.
My luck held. After two weeks I went back and the doctor said the healing in the broken bone was amazing, and that the ankle was going to be fine.
I have since taken down the lights on the tree using a ladder and being very careful. The tree is old and it may not be around many more years, but when I cut it down, I think I want to save that one special limb, which broke one of my limbs.
Maybe I will carve it into a walking stick.
Or maybe a pair of crutches.
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Abundance Value Oct 9
Friday Oct 14, 2011
Friday Oct 14, 2011
This is the complete episode of Abundance from October 9th.
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Bargain by Dane Allred
Friday Oct 14, 2011
Friday Oct 14, 2011
Bargain
by Dane Allred
Am I a bargain?
A good deal?
Do I yield value for the money spent?
Or did you settle for the discount,
The second,
The factory reject?
Am I ready for a quick return,
In hopes of
A more perfect
A more functional
A more desirable model?
How you value me
In large part helps me know how
To value myself.
Step up for the best buy of the century!
What’s it worth to you?
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